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roe Journal Volume XVIII. No. 9. Monroe, N. a, Tuesday, March 2S, 1911. One Dollar a Year. The ,n a mJLLm mil i ft LIKE HAIL ON A PAVEMENT. One Hundred and Fifty Girls Meet . Deith In New York Fire. Flames Mowed Them Down at Their machines. Caught Them in the Elevator Shafts, or They Were Crushed as They Shot Down Upon the Hard Pavement A Riot of Death and Suffer ing No Fire Escapes and Some body Responsible for Multipled Murder. A ten-story factory building in New York, without fire escapes, was the trap of death that caught one hundred and fifty young girls in New York city last Saturday. Either they perished in the flames or were crushed to death 89 they jumped to the sidewalk. The owners of the factory escaped. How the tire started will perhaps never be known. A corner on the eichth floor was its point of origin and the three upper llwrs only were swept. On the ninth floor 50 bodies were found; C3 or more persons wero crushed to death by jumping, and more than ."0 clogged the eleva tor shafts. Pedestrians going homo through Washington place to Washington siuare at 4:5 o'clock were scattered by the whiz of something rushing through the air before them; there was a horrible flop on the pavement and a body flattened on the Hags, Wayfarers on the opposite side of the street shaded their eyes against the setting tun and saw the windows of the three upper floors of the build ing black with girls crowding to the There were no tire escapes. "Don't jump, don't jump!" yelled the crowd. But the girls had no alternative. Tho pressure of the maddened hundreds behind them and the urging tf their own fears were too strong. They began to fall to the sidewalk in a terrible rain of flesh and blood. Four alarms were run? within 15 minutes, before the engines could respond, before the net3 could be stretched or the ladders raised, five girls had fallen from the eighth and ninth floors so heavily that they broke through the glass and iron roofs of the subcellars and crashed through the very streets into the vaults below. In an hour the fire was out; in half an hour it bad done its worst; probably the death list was full in 20 minutes. Seven hundred hands, 500 of them women, were employed by the shirt waist company. They sat in rows at their whirring machines, the tables before them piled with flimsy cloth, the floors littered with lint, the air itself full of living, inflammable dust. The first rush of flime was almost an exDlosion. Operators died in their chairs, their lungs seared by inhaline flime. Others crowded into the elevator shafts after the cars had made their last trip. Still oth ers were pushed off the inadequate interior fire escape. In such a horrible stream did the bodies oveiflow from the windows that the fire nets, stretched by the first companies to Jrrive, were soon corced bevond capacity. Twelve bodies weighted one ret to the burst ing point, but the bodies kept on tumbling to the pavement, through meshes that could no longer support them. When the first trait h of (lame curled over the ed:-? of a pi's of s'uirtinc en tho eighth 11 tor, live minutes before n'ti'tmg time, bun cl reds wero iu line tt fore '.ho cash ier's window. In the u'iro building nrro:-s Washington place scores (f men detained beyond cilice hours, woiked at their desks. Occ of them saw a cirl rush to a window end throw ud the sash. Behind her duiictd a teething curlain of yellow flune. She climbed to the sill, stood in the black outline against the light, hesitating, tlen. with a last touch of futile thri.'t, whirled down ward through the woven wire glaes of a canonv to the flagging below Her sisteis. who followed, flamed through the air like rockets. Their path could be followed, but hardly heard. It was 85 feet from the eighth floor to the ground, about 95 feet from the ninth floor, 115 feet from the cornice of the roof, and the upward rush of the draught and the crackle of tne names arownea meu cries. Six cirls fought their way to window on the ninth floor over the bodies of fallen fellow workers and prawled out in single file to sn eight-inch stone ledge running the lmcth of the building. Jiore man 100 feet above the sidewalk, they crept along their perilous pathway to a swinging electric feed wire spanning Washington place. The leaders paused for their companions to catch up and the six grabbed the wire simultaneously. It snapped like rotten whipcord and they crashed down to death. A 13 year-old girl hung for three minutes by her finger tips to the sill of a tenth floor window. A tongue of flame licked at her fingers and she dropped into a life net held by firemen. Two women fell into toe net at almost the same moment. The strands parted and the two were added to the death list A girl threw her pecketbook, then her hat, then her furs from a tenth story window. A moment later her body came whirling after them to death. At a ninth story window a man and a woman appeared. The man embraced the woman and kissed her. Then he hurled her to the street and iumped. Both were killed. Five tills smashed a pane of glass, drop ped in a struggling tangle and were crushed into a shapeless mass. A cirl on the eighth floor leaped for a fireman's ladder, which readi ed only to the sixth floor. She miss ed, struck the edge of a life net and was picked up with her back broken From one window a girl of about 13 years, a woman, a man and two women with their arms about ore another threw themselves to the ground in rapid succession. The littlo cirl was whirled to the New York hospital in an automobile She screamed as the driver and t policeman lifted her into a hallway A surgeon came out, gave one look at her face and touched her wrist. "She is dead," he said. Ono cirl jumped into a horse blanket held by firemen and police men. The blanket ripped like cheesecloth and her body was man cled almost beyond recognition Another dropped into a tarpaulin held by three men. Her weight tore it from their grasp and she struck the street, breaking almost every bone in her body. Almost the same moment a man somersaulted down upon the shoulder of a policeman holding the tarpaulin. He glanced off. struck the sidewalk and was picked up dead. The Millinery Openings. The millinery stores of the town had their regular spring openings last week. Belk Brothers had their display on Wednesday night and Thursday, Lee & Lee Company on Thursday and Friday, while Maddry 4 Wilson had theirs on Friday and Saturday. All the stores were visit ed during the time by hundreds of ladies to whom these events are far more interesting than the news from the army on the Mexican border. The new styles seem, to a mere man, to bo a little divergent this season, ranging from tne large to small. In trimmings flowers are profuse and in color the cerise, bright green, and coral are popular. At Belks the ladies were most gra ciously received by Misces Bessie Simpson, Eva Willie, hmma Uole and others. The decorations were a beautiful arrangement of calla lilies, ferns, and other beautiful flowers. The display of new styles in hats and trimmings was most complete and charming. At Ixe & Lee's, Mrs. Jennie Davis, Misses Nelson and Asbury were in charge. TLey had a very beautiful display of all tho newest things and large numbers of ladies vUited the r-oms. Ihddry & Wilison gave their dis play on Friday and Saturday. Their Lesv store is a very handsome and well arranged place, and their stock of all the new and pretty styles were shown oil' to advantage. The stores mado many sales and judging from the expressions heard tho ladies who visited them were very much pleased indeed. One lady remarked that she bad attend ed similar occasions in larger places this season and thought that those in Monroe were unexcelled. Miss Dunlap's Brother III. Wdrfaoro JtenKr nd lntrlllKnr A telegram was received yesterday by Mr. David R. Dunlap of Cedar Hill announcing the critical illness, in Kichmond, Va., of his son, Mr. Benjamin I. Dunlap. Mr. Dunlap, accompanied by bis daughter, Miss Bess Dunlap, who is teaching in Monroe, left last night for Kich mond. A message received here this morning from Mr. Dunlap brought the welcome information that his sen was seme better. It is feared Mr. Dunlap has diabetes. KILLED BV KICK OF flLLE. Lonnte Chambers, an Industrious Colored Man. Lost His Life Sun day at Harshville-A Faithful Worker. lonnie Chambers, a colored man who worked for K. M. Griflin & Co. of Monroe, was killed by the kick of a mule at Marshville Sunday after noon. Lonnie secured a pair of mules from Mr. Raymond Griffin Sunday morning and be and Charlie Leak, a friend of his, went to iiarsn ville, where he had formerly lived, to spend the day. In the afternoon they started home, but stopped awhile at the home of John Fort, who lives near Dr. Armfield's place at Marshville. John wanted to show them his mules and they went to the stable. John cautioned them to be careful of one of the mules, as he might kick. Lonnie said he didn't think the mulo was a kicker and walked around him in the stable, when he was kicked in the lower part of the body. He did not seem ta be very seriously hurt, and in about fifteen minutes got in the buggy and started on home, but soon cad to get out aau ue aown. ,V doctor was summoned, but the unfortunate man died during the nicht. He leaves a wife and chil dren. Lonnie was an industrious, hard workins man. He had been work ing for Mr. R. C. Grillia at Marsh ville, and later came to him at Mon roe. Mr. Griffin says he was the best and most reliable mm he ever had to work for him. Booker Washington Assaulted In New York- Upon a complaint of Booker T. Washington, the well known negro educator, a man was locked up by the police in New York Sunday night charged with assault upon Dr. asn- meton. Ihe latter received so se vere a blow on his head from a club that he was at the Flower hospital for over an hour late at night bav ins the wound dressed. The trouble occurred in front of a Sixty-third street house, at which Washington called about 10 o'clock at night to see a friend, but no one answered his repeated calls on the doorbell. Thinking the man he wished to see might appear any mo ment. Washington walked up and down in the vicinity for more than half an hour, when his walk was in terrupted by a man having the ap pearance of a janitor, who emerged with a big club in his band, accord ing to the complainant, and struck Washington. Washington said he returned the blow with his fist and held the man until the police arrived. The jani tor acted, according to Washington "as though he thought I was a bur lar." The alleged assailant, who is a large German, gave his name as Albert Ulrich. Washington appeared against the man in the police station next day and the man was put under bond for trial. Union Will fleet Here Next Year. At its session in Wilmington last week, the Baptist Woman's Union of North Carolina decided to meet in Monroe next year. The delegate returned Saturday night and report a fine meeting in Wilmington. The city furnished splendid entertain ment and the occasion wa3 greatly enjoyed. When the union meets here' next March there will be some three hundred delegates and many distinguished visitors and speakers, It will afford the ladies of the town and county of all denominations valuable opportunity to learn a great deal about tho work that the women ar.o carrying on. Twenty Thousand Dollars of Good In a Single Day. lynchbaru Ailvaiiff . N Twenty thousand dollars for a sin gle day s work is a record set by Lynchburg salesman, according to reports at the home office here. This pace was set in Atlanta for Lynchburg-manufactured goods the other day by Georgo 1 laugh, a rep resentative of the Craddock-Terry Company. When asked today about this rec ord day's work, C. G. Craddock.Hhe sales manager of tho company, con firmed the statement and added that he thought it was duo to the extcn sive advertising campaign in the Southern territory. "Our patrons are increasing their business in thi same city," said Mr. Craddock, "for I find that some of our largest cus tomers have this year doubled their last year's orders and it is, in my opinion, du? to bigger advertising, MURDERED AT HAMLET. Colored Woman cf Monroe Found Dead and Her Body Stuffed in a Trunk Man Who Was Living With Her Ran Away Has a Husband Living. Ella Richardson, colored, known around Monroe among the colored population at one of the Richardson, or N?ven Nsters, was Killed at Iamlet last Monday night and her body stuffed ia a trunk, where it was found Tuesday evening. Will )arrah, the man whom she had been living with some time, is wanted by the ollicers as the possible murderer. Her sister lived near her and during the day Tuesday she missed F.lla and asked where she was. Darrah said she had gone to Rockingham Not satisfied with this answer, she began searching for her later on in the day. A negro named J. B. John son, wno said be nad been at lae house with the man and the woman the night before and that they seem ed in good humor, went with the woman and her husband to the house. Johnson suggested looking in the trunks, which was done. Sure enough, the body of Ella was found stuffed in one of them. In the mean time Darrah Lad disappeared. The officers were summoned and the cor oner decided that the woman had been choked to death. The bouy was bruised as if it had been beaten. The trunk in which it was packed was a little 26 inch one. The John son negro was arrested and placed in jail, and Darrah has cot been found. The negroes have been tell ing that he has been in Monroe since the murder, but it is not likely that he would have come here where he is well known and where the worn ans people live, t.uas nu-soana works at the Spencer shops and is named Office Gaddy. They have not lived together in some time, and !la and Darrah both told Chief Laney a short time ago that Office was dead. Chesterfield Murderer Pardoned Columbia f:at To be convicted of murder and sentenced to death; to spend several months in a county jail and then be led to the scaffold and watch the sheriff prepare the noose and make ready for tho execution; to receive suddenly the news that he is to be commuted to life imprisonment and to spend 20 years in the State peni tentiary, tells a part of the life story of David J. Jacobs, who was pardon ed yesterday by Governor Blease Jacobs is 72 years old. He was par doned on the recommendation of D J. Griffith, superintendent of the penitentiary. David Jacobs and Mary Johnson were convicted for murder in Ches terfield county in 1891. They were charged with killing the husband o; the woman by poison. The jury re turned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and Judge Frazer sentenced them to hang. The attorney for Jacobs and the woman secured a commutation sentence to life imprisonment from B. R. Tillman, who was then Gover nor of tho State. No one knew the commutation except Governor Tillman, the sheriff of Chesterfield county and the attorney. Tho pris oners were led to the scaffold. Just before tho trap was sprung tho pri vate secretary of the Governor pre 3( nted the papers. Both the prisoners were sent to the penitentiary. Tho woman died several years ago. Judge Bennett's Home Burned "Selrna Hill," the home of Col. T. Bennett, ex-Congresaman and ex judge, of the Superior court, was do atroyed by fire this morning between '.) and 10 o'clock. Tho fire caught on the roof while Mrs. Henuett was burning out a chimney and, as the water main goes enly within about three hundred feet cf him, when help arrived it was impossible to save tho magnificent old homestead Master Carl Robinson, son of Mr, D. Robinson, was the first to see the blaze and a telephone message was then given to Mrs. John D. Leak Col. Bennett's daughter, who lives nearest to him, and when she arriv ed Mr. and Mrs. Bennett were not even aware of the fact that the roof was in flames. Practically all the household goods were taken out. Even tho mantels, window sashes and window panes down stairs were taken out. The house was insured for 2,500 and the loss ia estimated at about 10,-000. A Trip to Egypt and the Holy Land. Oa Tuesday night of next week. in the opera house, the Maluf Trio will give their celebrated entertain ment under the auspices of the Wo men's Missionary Society of Central Methodist church. The trio are na tives of the Holy Land but have an American education. Their father has worked with the American mis sionaries for IS yeara. I'rof. Maluf is the greatest living authority on the Holy I.and. lie knows every foot of that wonderful country, and Mrs. Maluf makes a beautiful bride of Bethlehem, and as the Princess of Egypt commands a great presence and captures every eye. The music, as rendered in the native tongue, has the sweetness and quaintness so characteristic of the people of that Eastern country. Mr. A. K. Maluf loves nis violin and proves mat to his hearers, when he hugs it. They appear with a number of helpers. i he illustrated views give a most comprehensive glimpse of the Holy l.and and its world of ruins and its sacred spots. In the third part of the program they appear in their native costumes and show by per sonal demonstration some of the pe culiar customs of the people of the Holv Land. Their entertainment appeals to all denominations. It is great privilege, a rare and valu able opportunity. The historic and acred Holy Land is, as if it were transported from Asia aud set down America, with all the customs, hab its and sacred places. Stereoptiean views of Lgypt and the Holy Land, and -',000 feet of moving pictures. Tennessee Synod to Meet in Honroe Tho North Carolina conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee synod will meet with St. Luke's con gregation of Monroe Wednesday be fore the fifth Sunday in April, lull, at 10 o'clock a. m. rRORRAM. Wednesday, 11 a. m. Sermon by president of conference, Rev. C. K. Bell. Sub ect,"The Lutheran Church and Evangelism. W ednesday, 2 p. m. Address by Prof. C. E. Boger, principal; O. P. Rhyne, alternate. Subject, 1 he Lay men's View of the Pulpit." Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. Sermon by Kev. John Hall. Subject, "The Lutheran Church and Cateehizi- tion." Thursday, 11 a. m. Sermon by Rev. L. L. I-ohr. Subject, "The Lu theran Church and Missions. Thursday, 2 p. m. Address by Rev. W. J. Boger. Subject, "The Pastor s lew of the Pew. Thursday. 7:30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. M. L. Stirewalt. Subject, "The Lutheran Church and Education. Friday, 11a. m. Sermon by Rev J. C. Daitz. Sub ect, "The I-uth eran Church and Changing Creeds.' Friday, 2 p. m. Address by Rev W. A. Deaton Subject, "Successfu Church Work Friday, 7:30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. R. A. Yoder, D. I). Subject "The Lutheran Church and Ameri can Citizenship." C. K. Bkll, Pres. W. A. Dhatox, Sec'y Ail pastors and delegates p:oa?e notify the secretary, Mr. T. L. Cro well, Monrce, N. C, so that homes may bo provided for them. All pas tors and delegates are expected. Dr. Dixon Called to Srurgcon's Church. Biiltim.i"i Nin, Rev. Dr. Amzi C. Dixon, who was for eight years a pastor in Baltimore, has i,ec:i given a unanimous call to become the paster of the M tropoli tan TabenuHe, in London, England. This is one of tho most noftd pul pits iu the world, cs the late Rev. Dr. Charles II. Spurgeon for many years was piMor of this chun-h. 1 r. Dixou is now pastur (f the Moody church, in Chicago, which is a Con gregatioualist society i.nd ore cf the iarg' st churches in this country, f i is believed that Dr. D'xn tui! f.2 cjpt the call. Dr. Dixon is a North Carolinian and is a brother of Tom Dixon, au thor and playwright. Don't Buy Stolen Property. Every few days farmers while in town lose their whips, lap robes, check reins, bridles, etc. Chief La ney says that sneak thieves are steal ing these articles and selling them at any price, 50 whips for 1., etc. He asks any one to whom such arti cles are offered not to buy tLeai, as they are likely stolen goods, but re port to him the ones who offered to sell them. In this way the thing will soon be stepped. WOMEN BURNED TO DEATH. Miss Davis and Miss Eaucom Vic tints of Lamp Explosion. Preparing to go Home from Quilt ing Tarty, Young Ladies of New Salem Towniship Are Horribly Burned and Two of Them Die Next Horning: One of the flost Distressing Tragedies that Ever Occurred in the County Dau in ters of Rev. A. C. Davis and Ex County Commissioner Baucom. Miss Wilma Davis, daughter of Rev. A. C. Davis, and Miss Grace Baucom, daughter of Ex -County Commissioner II T. Baucom, died horrible deaths last Friday morning from burns received by a lamp ex- tlosion the evening before. Miss ou Baucom, daughter of Mr. Riley Baucom and a cousin of Miss Graco Jjaucom, was also badly burned, but will recover. The tragedy is one of the most distressing things that has ever occurred in the county. The young ladies bad attended a quilting party at the home of Mr. 0. A. Pritchard.one mile from Olive Iranch, where they both liye, and had gone to a room to prepare to leave for home. It was growing; dark and a lamp had beeri lighted. The girls were close together near a mirror arranging their hair. Misa Grace Baucom look the lamp in hand to move it, when without any known cause, a terrific explosion took place and the oil and flames . wrapped their victims in their hor rible folds in the twinkling of an eye. lfceir screams Drougni instant help but it was of no avail, so quick and fatal was the work of death. Mr. Pritchard and Edgar Baucora were themselves badly burned in their efforts to put out the flames, which were quickly subdued, but not till they had done their cruet work. The bodies were burned over much of the surface and much of the flame must have been inhaled. Dr. Brooks, the nearest physician, arrived in perhaps twenty minutes and did all he could, but the young women lingered in agony till the next morning, when Miss Davis died about 8 o'clock and Miss Baucom twenty minutes later. Miss Davis said to the atteudants that she felt sure that she would get well, and cautioned them to do all they could for her companion, as she was afraid she would not get well. Thus there was great surpnso when Miss Davia died first, as she w emtd not to ba suffering as much as Miss Baucom. The bodies were buried at Olive. Branch Saturday afternoon, Rev. G-.. 0. Wilhoit of Ansonville conducting, the service. An immense number of friends and sympathizers gather ed to pay their respects and sym pathy. Miss Wilma Davis was 21 years; old and, as said above, was the daughter of Rev. A. C. Davis, a well known Baptist minister of the coun ty. She was a member of the Bap tist church, and held in highest es teem by mary friends and the who'e community. Miss Grace Baucom was 20 years? old last January. She was the daugh ter of 'Squire H. 'I. Baucom, ono of the best citizens of tho county, and lately a useful member of the county board of commissioners. Sin hail been a member of the Baptist church for five years and was a teacher in the Sunday school. She was a half tister of Mrs. J. W. Fowler of Mon roe and of Mrs. J. 'f. Fowler of this township. She na a popular and beloved member ( f her community. Miss Leu Baoooni, wh.lo tally burned, will recover. The commu nity cor the county ha9 never had anv more shocking occurrence. Parks (lues to Charlotte and Hud son Succeeds Him. Mr. J. G. Parks, who has been with the R.J. IMk Company of this p see for sevtral tears, has given up his wrk here End has taken a posi tion rs manager c f t'.'e domestic de partment of Belk Bros', store iu Charlotte. Mr. Parks is a successful business manager and a good citi zen, and the people of this commu nity regret to give him up. Mr. Karl Hudson, who hai been with tho R. J. Belk Company for the past, year or more, succeeds Mr. Parks as Manager of that firm. Mr. Hudson is an efficient and energetic young business man and will render excel lent services. Kverr family lms r.fiil of a pxxl, tr ilalilo liniuint. K'r umins liniitu, m.ret cw of the Diu-x-let and rtipiimntio jititu there h nono Ivttir than Ch-iBilwrlaiu', boM f til Jfu'trs.
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